Results

Matrix Dynamite Trentmen win Match Fishing team qualifier.
Matrix Dynamite Trentmen have won this weekend's Match Fishing Team Championship qualifier, on the Warwickshire Avon at Evesham.

After a tense weigh-in, Matrix Dynamite Trentmen, pipped the fancied Kamasan Starlets team by a single point to take victory.

The team, made up of Ant King, Greg Cooper, Tom Potter, Ricky Marshall and Matt Parkin, finished with 50 points from a possible 65. Kamasan Starlets, consisting of Ed Warren, Lee Edwards, Gary Pook, Scott Geens and Dan Ashington, were runners-up, and local rods Alcester Sports took the third and final qualifying place.

In the individual stakes, the Trentmen teams most senior member, Ant King, lead by example winning the match from end Peg 1 with a 9-12-0 net. After an early bream on groundbait feeder, Ant topped up his net with a host of smaller hybrids, roach and perch on waggler tactics. Alan Stephens took second spot, with a net of perch and eels from Peg 42, all taken on maggot feeder tactics. 

Overnight rain saw the River Avon carrying extra pace and a healthy tint of colour for the last of this year's team qualifiers, and the fishing proved consistent throughout the match length.


Individuals:
1 Ant King (Matrix Dynamite Trentmen) 9-12-0 (Peg 1)
2 Alan Stephens (Alcester Sports) 7-7-0 (Peg 41)
3 Ed Warren (Kamasan Starlets) 7-4-0 (Peg 52)
4 Tom Potter (Matrix Dynamite Trentmen) 7-0-0 (Peg 36)
5 Jim Brockie (Alcester Sports) 6-15-8 (Peg 76)

Teams:
1 Matrix Dynamite Trentmen
2 Kamasan Starlets           
3 Alcester Sports
4 Maver Cardinals
5 Noddyboys
6 Mosella Bait-Tech           
7 Cardiff Nomads
8 Drennan Oxford
9 Maver Midlands Handsome Hunks
10 Maver Midlands Youth
11 Tubertini Yellow           
12 Browning West Midlands

Qualifiers:
1 Matrix Dynamite Trentmen
2 Kamasan Starlets
3 Alcester Sports